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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 201406-13
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 Severity: Normal
    Title: memcached: Multiple vulnerabilities
     Date: June 15, 2014
     Bugs: #279386, #452098, #467962, #496506, #498078
       ID: 201406-13

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Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in memcached, allowing remote
attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause Denial of Service.

Background
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memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching
system

Affected packages
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     Package              /     Vulnerable     /            Unaffected
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  1  net-misc/memcached           < 1.4.17                  >= 1.4.17

Description
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memcached authentication could be bypassed when using SASL due to a
flaw related to SASL authentication state. Also several heap-based
buffer overflows due to integer conversions when parsing certain length
attributes were discovered.

Impact
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A remote attacker could possibly execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the process, cause a Denial of
Service condition or authenticate with invalid SASL credentials,
bypassing memcached authentication completely.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All memcached users should upgrade to the latest version:

  # emerge --sync
  # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-misc/memcached-1.4.17"

References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2009-2415
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-2415
[ 2 ] CVE-2013-7239
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-7239
[ 3 ] CVE-2011-4971
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2011-4971
[ 4 ] CVE-2013-0179
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-0179
[ 5 ] CVE-2013-7290
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-7290
[ 6 ] CVE-2013-7291
      http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-7291

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201406-13

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2014 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/